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(Young Collectors)Plan B
The Young Collector
If we have learned anything from the past few months (please, let us have learned something), it might be that our plans are not plans. Our plans are all too often more like ideas. We have ideas about what we want, ideas about how things will go, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Collector’s Lens
The Young Collector
Sometimes we like to muse about what we would do if independently wealthy. We would buy our friends a lot of “This made me think of you” gifts, we would probably have an array of interesting business cards printed just for laughs, and we might hand over mowing ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Experience vs. Outcome
The Young Collector
As this isolated strangeness grinds on, more and more we realize that we do not miss many big things. What we miss are the little things—shaking hands, seeing smiles, giving hugs. You know, the good old days of being able to run errands without masks, sanitizer, wipes, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Take a (Different) Seat
The Young Collector
We have a large window in the eat-in area of our kitchen that overlooks the driveway, which is surrounded by a head-high concrete retaining wall. A seat here offers a vantage point for watching the kids play and interact, and Hollie was doing just that this spring when ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)We Don’t Know
The Young Collector
Humans are really bad at not knowing exactly what to do. We are pretty sure that at the current moment none of you needs us to provide examples of this. To be fair, many of us do not like to be told what to do either, thus condemning ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Adaptations
The Young Collector
Human beings, we are always being told, are highly adaptable. It is, one hears, a key to our evolutionary success. (Assuming we are still an evolutionary success. We seem to be botching that at the moment.) As usual, the reality is more complex, and although we are highly ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Staying at Home
The Young Collector
We write this in our first week of Ohio’s mandatory “Stay at home” order. “Stay at home,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine thinks, and we agree, sounds a good bit less ominous than “Shelter in place,” which conjures visions of 1960s elementary school kids crowding under their desks. We ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Notes from Nashville
The Young Collector
Back in our early days in the auction business, every year in February, and sometimes in October, we would make a trip to Nashville. We see now that we were getting on-the-job logistics training. We would go down with a truck full of deliveries and return with a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Good or Good Enough
The Young Collector
Normally, sitcoms are light, fluffy palate cleansers or heartwarming relatable family stories. We take refuge in one most nights before bed, sort of as a way to rid ourselves of everything else we’ve heard or read during the day, and we’ve discovered that The Good Place is a ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Roadshow Effect
The Young Collector
Recently we took the kids to see the final (let’s be honest—latest) installment of Star Wars, and they were talking about how excited they were, and how they could not wait. Andrew pointed out that he had been waiting for this moment for more than 40 years. It ... (Read More)
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